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A new standard for the selection of events to be included in the Olympics is coming into force. It is the “bottom line."
We are indebted to one Andrew Strenk. identified as the resident historian on the staff of the 198-1 International Olympic Organizing Committee in Los Angeles, for this information. Now. a resident historian is an office of relatively recent creation. Traditionally historians were expected to come after the action, sometimes centuries later, reconstruct what had had happened, put it in order and interpret it. Today we have not only resident historians, but resident-pre-historians, ready to write instant history, or even history in advance.
Corporations have company historians. And the Department of Defense carries contemporary historians. who are probably busynow writing the history of the victory in Grenada. But for the Olympics, the resident historian is an innovation. Strenk has been useful, not as an historian, but for his honesty in reporting the new standards for Olympic decisions.
The compelling consideration as to which events will be included in the Olympic competition is. according to Strenk. "dollars and business sense.” "Behind the scenes" he reports, "The Olympic committee has to ask how many people will watch the sport? Can we sell out the stadium?” and (one must assume, above all or before all) “Is it adaptable to television?”
The big money from or for the Olympics will come from television, with some supplemental contributions from Air-Lines, sporting goods and athletic equipment manufacturers and distributers. And, it seems, that the old saying “Who pays the piper, calls the
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